Breeding activity and chorus tenure of two neotropical hylid frogs

Herpetologica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-311

  Bevier, Catherine Robb ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Energetics; Reproduction; Scinax

Indexed keywords

BREEDING STRATEGY; CALLING BEHAVIOUR; ENERGETIC COST; FROG;

SCINAX BOULENGERI; SCINAX RUBRA;

EID: 0031426126     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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